[Pkg-openssl-devel] r57 - in openssl/trunk: . debian

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Sun Oct 16 15:35:54 UTC 2005


On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 05:12:57PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:58:43PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
> > 
> > Please look into
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321721. Openssl does
> > not need an executable stack. But some assembler code is not marked as
> > such. Pax complains about it. I made the patch for the i386 arch because
> >  for this arch was the bugreport. I am not shure if all the other
> > architectures have the problem. If I remember correctly there are some
> > processors which do not have executable stacks.
> 
> Since we now use assembler for some routines for amd64, atleast
> the md5-x86_64.s/o file are not marked as not needing an
> executable stack.  This looks like it needs a rewrite of
> crypto/md5/asm/md5-x86_64.pl to atleast take an argument of which
> target platform it is, so that we can properly mark it as such.

The affected files on amd64 are:
crypto/md5/md5-x86_64.s
crypto/rc4/rc4-x86_64.s
crypto/x86_64cpuid.s


Kurt




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